Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure of a layered vanadium oxide with an interlayer metal coordination complex: [Co(phen)3][V10O26]·H2O

A novel compound, [Co(phen)3][V10O26]·H2O, was hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Ccca with a=13.447(3), b=29.936(6), c=23.252(5) A, V=9360(3) A3, Z=8 and R=0.0285. Data were collected on a Rigaku R-AXIS RAPID IP diffractometer at 293 K in the range of 1.36<θ<24.99 deg. The structure of the compound consists of vanadium oxide layers, which are built up from the infinite VO4 chains by corners and edges sharing. The [Co(phen)3]2+ complexes occupy the interlayer space and contact each other via π-π stacking interactions of the phen groups to form infinite one-dimensional chains